Rawagede MASSACRE
The Riverside Massacre
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Dutch military aggression in December 1947 was tainted with the massacre of Rawagede villagers. It is still hard for the Dutch to offer an apology and compensation.
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SA’IH, 86, was sitting on a worn-out mat, inhaling clove cigarette smoke now and again. On that Wednesday morning last week, he wore a black cap with a white safari shirt and brown pants. He had his back to the monument of Rawagede Struggle in Rawagede village, Balongsari hamlet, Rawamerta, Karawang, West Java.
The bespectacled senior occasionally glanced at a man and a woman who were sweeping in a cemetery complex, part of the monument. “I
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